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Category Archives: Regulatory Matters
New Mexico State University Partners with AeroVironment for Study on UAS into NAS Integration at Night
New Mexico State University’s Physical Science Laboratory has partnered with AeroVironment to study the safety of small, unmanned aircraft system operations at night in the National Airspace System. Study results strongly indicate nighttime operations of unmanned aircraft systems are safe, maybe even more so than daytime operations. Continue reading
Spanish CAA Announces its Plans for RPAS Regulation
The third meeting of EUROCAE WG93 on Light RPAS took place in Madrid, Spain on 13 and 14 March 2013 and was hosted by AESA, the Spanish Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). Continue reading
Integrating RPAS into Civil Airspace
On 12 March 2013, a free workshop entitled “Integrating RPAS into Civil Airspace”, that had been organized by UVS International, took place at ATC Global 2013 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The workshop room was nearly filled to capacity and a good number of lively panel discussions took place. Continue reading
Unmanned Aircraft Industry to Create 70,000 New US Jobs in 3 Years Following Integration into National Air Space
AUVSI unveiled a new study, which finds that the unmanned aircraft industry is poised to create more than 70,000 new American jobs in the first three years following the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into U.S. national airspace system (NAS). Continue reading
Australia Now Has 30 Certified UAS Operators
CASA chief John McCormick spoke recently about CASA’s perspective on the deployment of unmanned aircraft systems, although he preferred to refer to them as Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs). Continue reading
Integrating RPAS Into European Civil Airspace
In mid 2013, the European Commission’s European regulatory roadmap relative to the incremental integration of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) into the current European civil airspace environment will be published. Continue reading
US National Guard May Share UAS Surveillance with Law Enforcement Agencies
Data collected by the Army National Guard’s unmanned aircraft in American skies could be passed along to other government agencies, as long as it is “unintentionally and incidentally collected,” according to internal documents acquired last week.